Will Catastrophic Yellowstone Eruption Set Off War of Gog and Magog?

“Therefore shall heaven be shaken,
And earth leap out of its place, At the fury of God of Hosts On the day of His
burning wrath.” Isaiah 13:13 (The Israel Bible™)

A mystic rabbi suggested that an
alarming spate of recent geyser activity in Yellowstone National Park may be
the precursor to the pre-Messiah war of Gog and Magog. While scientists predict
that seismic activity will increase, people of faith look for the spiritual
implications.

After four years of total silence,
the Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park in northwest Wyoming came
back to life on Saturday, shooting steam 200 feet into the air. Steamboat
is the largest in the world with eruptions reaching up to 400 feet. This
latest eruption set a new record for the geyser of 30 eruptions in one year.
The previous record of 29 eruptions was set in 54 years ago in 1964.

The geyser erupted for the first
time this year on March 14. It was the first activity at the site since 2014.
The geyser is unpredictable with eruptions dispersed anywhere from days to
years apart. The geyser did not erupt at all from 1911 to 1961.

Yellowstone park is seismically
active with more than 10,000 thermal features of which more than 500 are
geysers.

“The heightened activity at
Steamboat this year is uncommon but not unprecedented. We have seen similar
activity twice previously; once in the early 1960s, and again in the early
1980s. Conversely, the world’s tallest active geyser has also exhibited years
of quiescence or no major eruptions, with the longest being the 50-year period
between 1911 and 1961,” Jeff Hungerford, Yellowstone’s park geologist, told the
local media.
“We’ll continue to monitor this extraordinary geyser.”

A correlation between geyser
activity and earthquakes has not been proven, but some scientists believe that
geological shifting may lead to increased geothermal events. The Yellowstone
region has seen a period of increased earthquakes and swarms of minor tremors.
In June 2017, the Wyoming area of Yellowstone was hit by a persistent swarm of
approximately 2,400 tremors. These swarms are continuing this year at a
slightly lower rate.

Rabbi Yekutiel Fish,
author of the Hebrew Torah blog, Sod HaChashmal, emphasized that forces of
nature, such as earthquakes and volcanoes, are manifestations of God’s
judgement, denoted in the Bible by His name ‘elohim.’ The rabbi noted
that the seismic aspect of God’s influence in the world was explicitly
described in Psalms.

Therefore we are not afraid though
the earth reels, though mountains topple into the sea. Its waters rage and
foam; in its swell mountains quake. Selah. Psalms 46:3-4

“The entire world will be judged
before the Moshiach (Messiah),” Rabbi Fish told Breaking Israel News.
“Nature will change, be less normal, because God will be guiding it in a more
direct manner.”

“This will be especially true during
the War of Gog and Magog,” he said. “The war will be unique in that it won’t be
simply a war between countries. God will play a major role via nature, through
natural disasters.”

“The verse in Psalms is clearly
referring to tsunamis which will increase in the days preceding Messiah,” Rabbi
Fish said. But we also see that earthquakes will increase around the world.”

In fact, scientists have predicted
that this year could see a surge
in seismic activity around the globe. In their study published in Geophysical Research Letters, Roger Bilham and Rebecca Bendick presented a model that
predicts that 2018 will be the opening of a window of potentially increased
large earthquake activity due to slight changes in the spin-rate of the Earth.
The rate at which the planet spins changes cyclically and the scientists claim
that five to six years after a period of relatively slow spin, a 30-percent
increase in seismic activity takes place. Though they are unsure of the
duration of the increase, they conjecture it can last up to five years. The
last global slow-down took place in 2012.

Scientists
have also noted that during periods of decreased glaciers it is easier for
magma to reach the surface and feed volcanic eruptions. It can take thousands
of years after the glaciers melt for volcanic activity to rise. Several studies
over the last 40 year have suggested that, as the ice vanished, volcanic
eruptions became much more frequent. A 2009 study, for example, concluded that
between 7,000 and 12,000 years ago, the global level of volcanic activity rose
by up to six times. Around the same period, the rate of volcanic activity in
Iceland soared to at least 30 times today’s level. Though the cause of climate
change is currently a matter of debate in the scientific community, it is
generally accepted that temperatures around the globe are rising. If so, this
may lead to increased volcanic activity.

Although the probability of an
eruption at Yellowstone is minuscule, only a one in 100,000 chance in any given
year according to scientists, the results of such an event would be
catastrophic in the extreme. The Yellowstone Caldera is listed as
the most dangerous supervolcano in existence and as such, is the most monitored
volcano in the world. It has erupted three times over the last 2 million years,
most recently about 70,000 years ago.

The biggest danger from an eruption
is not the lava but the ash. The Yellowstone eruption two million years ago
produced 2,500 times as much ash as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Ash is
caustic when inhaled and volcanic eruptions can spew the ash high into the
atmosphere. The pileup of ash on rooftops has resulted in building collapses. A
Yellowstone supereruption would disrupt electronics and endanger human health
in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and affect other parts of the country. Moreover, a
month-long supereruption could affect the global climate for several years.

In comparison, relatively minor
eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland in 2010 led to 20 European countries
shutting down their commercial air traffic for one week, affecting more than 20
million travellers.

Major volcanic eruptions that spew
ash into the atmosphere obscuring the sun can lead to a volcanic winter in
which global temperatures drop. The phenomenon is not infrequent, occurring
approximately once each century. The most recent took place in 1991 after the
explosion of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, cooling global temperatures for
about three years. A more significant drop in temperatures could lead to a
global crisis in food production.

NASA scientists assured the public
that the likelihood of a supereruption is minuscule but nonetheless conducted a
study in 2017 to determine the feasibility of preventing the volcano from
erupting. NASA proposed
introducing water at high pressure six miles underground. Nevertheless,
according to Brian Wilson of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the project might
trigger, instead of prevent, an eruption.

In his weekly sermon last week,
Rabbi Nir Ben Artzi predicted that all manners of natural catastrophes are
going to increase in the coming year.

“God will judge, ‘who to life and
who to death,’” Rabbi Ben Artzi said. He also predicted that international
conflict will increase. “The heart of the king is in the hands of God,” he
said.

In a previous sermon,
he explained why God uses nature in this manner.

“People believe that nature just
happens,” Ben Artzi said. “That is a mistake we make because we don’t always
see or hear God. If God left the world solely in our hands it would have been
destroyed a long time ago.”

Rabbi Fish emphasized that it is a
mistake for men to think they can control nature.

“The only thing we can do is pray
and do tshuva (repent),” Rabbi Fish said. “But these are the greatest
acts a man can do. In our age, when the messsiah is imminent, this can save the
world.”

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